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...best director, the National Board named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...Magnificent Yankee (MGM) is an affectionate salute to the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court, but not a very impressive one. Patterning the movie after his own 1946 Broadway play, Scripter Emmet Lavery sentimentalizes Holmes's life in Washington in the years between T.R. and F.D.R...
...probably inevitable. The sustained box-office appeal of such Civil War epics as The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind is part of Hollywood's folklore. Westerns, popular since early silent days, are still steady moneymakers. The latest trend was forecast last spring by MGM's The Outriders, in which Confederate Joel McCrea escaped from a Yankee prison camp, took to bushwhacking over broad stretches of western scenery. Then came 20th Century-Fox's Two Flags West (Confederate prisoners of war sign up to fight Indians), Warner's Rocky Mountain (Errol Flynn tries...
...Musical of the Year: MGM's $3,200,000 Annie Get Your...
...that seem to come straight from the ancient Pharaohs. The Watusi's longtime slaves, the Buhutus, also help Africa steal the show from Hollywood. Before the duel is fought, they throw themselves into a long, exotically graceful dance that far outstrips any choreography ever put into one of MGM's musicals. For moviegoers who don't have much hope of making a visit to Africa this year, King Solomon's Mines is the next best thing...